Acknowledgements

Three Worlds, Three Portraits: Introduction
-Studying the moral management of the Daughters of Charity: methods and sources
-Study in scholarly context

Chapter I: At the cradle: gender and power in seventeenth-century Parisian society
1. The elitist facelift of Paris
2. The dévotes and the spiritual facelift of Paris
3. Social problems and the reorganization of nursing

Chapter II: Portrait of Louise de Marillac: ensuring resources for moral management
1. The credible head: Louise de Marillac and the elite networks of the Company
2. The living saint: managing spiritual authority
3. The passive penitent: portraying orthodox power relations

Chapter III: Portrait of the Daughter of Charity: safeguarding the execution of moral management
1. Martha and Mary: conflict and reconciliation
2. Cloistered outside the cloister: managing spiritual position
3. Moderate Magdalene: devotional practices and social status
4. Superior saint of Jerome - justifying the mixed vocation

Chapter IV: Portrait of the underprivileged: managing the ignorant substitute of Christ
1. Ignorant soul to be saved: motivation through prejudice
2. Jesus nursed: motivation through love
3. Creating the ideal underprivileged to protect the Company: substance of the moral management

From conservative moral management to survival: conclusions

Sources

Note on vocabulary

Index